🧬 Orientation and Immersion - 2022

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Program: Foundation Studies Program, 2022-2023

Semester: ODD

Studio No:

Date: August 2022

Unit Title: Immersion (Play and Invent)

Facilitators: Roshan Sahi, Minakshi Singh, and Arvind Venkatadri

Credits: 3 for Contextual Enquiry

Focus of the unit: Observing, Reflecting, and Creating

Premise of the Unit:

UNIT ABSTRACT: (The background and the core idea of the unit)

This Unit is a set of Orientation and Immersion Activities in the Foundation (freshman) year of a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Design, at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, India. The intent of this Unit is to help students to understand:

  • Networking, Identity, and Aspiration. By creating something in teams, students meet new people and start to create new networks. Identity is about their personal values, their upbringing, and family culture, and how it can be displayed and be a part of their creative practice. Aspiration is about creative possibility, a noticing or discovery of some extraordinary skill or ability in this classroom, and to desire and want to develop that skill during a Srishti-long, (maybe life-long) journey.

  • Tools and Experiences, Big Understandings, and Creative Purposes. Students will be guided to observe their surroundings by listening, seeing, smelling, touching, and tasting, mapping, and drawing. There will also be gamified situations in the classroom itself. Several Big Ideas that are relevant and applicable across subjects will be introduced. Students will use the activities, observations, and analytical skills to evolve an art and design expression that will enable them to creatively evolve ways of exploration and understanding.

  • Art Experience. Several artists and their oeuvre will be studied and appreciated. The creative motivations and ideas that may underlie these pieces of work will be discussed.

Throughlines (i.e. generalizable ideas) will be drawn across individual Experiences and Concepts from each of these, and the students will be encouraged to express the understanding of these in an artifact.

Enduring Understanding: (The larger takeaway for students)

  • Multi-sensorial Observation
  • Tools for Observation
  • Appreciating Artists and different “systems” of Art
  • Using Art to appreciate Big Ideas and Concepts
  • Assimilating Big Ideas and seeing their broader applicability
  • Creating Art and Artifacts that represent understanding and inspiration.

Understanding Goals: (The most important aspects students to understand)

  • TBD

Essential Question: (The driving questions that will help to build EU and UG)

  • TBD

Students will be able to: (The essential abilities built around acquiring knowledge and skill)

  • TBD

Assessment Evidence: (The essential abilities built around acquiring knowledge and skill)

  • Classroom and Field Participation
  • Visual Journal The Artifact to be produced in the last week is not to be a part of the Assessment.

Assessment Criteria: (Criteria are used for assessing outcomes of this unit)

  1. Understanding: (Explain, Summarize, Infer, Paraphrase, Discuss, Not necessarily going beyond classroom material)
    • Big Ideas

  2. Applying: (Carrying Out, Executing, Implementing)
    • Ways of Observing • Tools Usage • Application of Critical and Analytical Thinking Methods to make Creative Decisions

  3. Reflecting: (Recording, Analysing, Critiquing, Appraising, Investigating, Evaluating, Inferring)
    • Appreciating broader applicability of Ideas, Experiences, Tools

  4. Creating: (Generating, producing, Planning, Reorganizing, Put together new Pattern or Structure)
    • Creating/Discussing connections between Ideas, Tools, and Personal Experience

Weekly Plan: (progression, activities and plan, showing possible throughlines)

Last updated on Jan 7, 2024